#justice4couriers — Public Fediverse posts

This is an important decision: food #couriers in #Finland recognized as employees by the Supreme Administrative Court.

I wrote some quick reflections on the decision and the struggle for courier worker rights.

https://research.tuni.fi/tammisto/blog/food-couriers-are-recognized-as-employees/

#work #workerrights #Justice4Couriers

HS:n ansiokas artikkeli kertoi kuinka osa ruoksläheteistä työskentelee vuokratulla tilillä ja lähes palkatta.

Keskustelussa ei pidä syyllistää epätoivoisia lähettejä, vaan keskittyä juurisyihin, eli oleskelulupien ja perheenyhdistämisen koviin tulorajoihin ja paperittomuuten, jotksa ajavat tekemään töitä surkeillakin ehdoilla.

Ja Woltin ja Foodoran käyttämään pakkoyrittäjyysmalliin, joka mahdollistaa hyväksikäytön.

#Justice4Couriers #ruokalähetit
https://fi.justice4couriers.fi/2023/04/23/ongelma-ei-ole-paperiton-lahetti-vaan-paperittomuuden-luova-jarjestelma/

#Wolt couriers in Jyväskylä are striking, because the company unilaterally changed its contract with the couriers, without informing what the pay will be.

Wolt can do this, because it keeps its couriers "independent contractors", thereby circumventing all employer responsibilities.

In 2018, #couriers began the #Justice4Couriers campaign to resist the precarious and dangerous working conditions.

Support to the #strike, #solidarity to the couriers.✊
#labor #LaborRights
https://yle.fi/a/74-20015005

Here is a piece I wrote some years back on how in the #GigEconomy #labor relations are made "technical" through #automatization and making them part of the #algorithms

This "making technical" obfuscates and masks the very real relations of power at the workplace.

Relations that affect what workers, in this case #couriers, do and how much they are paid, are made features of the software, making it harder for the worker to question them.

#Justice4Couriers
https://www.justice4couriers.fi/2018/10/11/when-mr-robot-is-your-boss-working-under-algorithms/